Alum Update: Ehrsam

Panigrahi Joins Faculty

CS is delighted to welcome Debmalya Panigrahi as an assistant professor. Panigrahi was previously at Microsoft Research in Redmond, where he spent a year as a postdoctoral researcher after receiving his PhD in Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2012. More

Hartemink Promoted

Grant Awarded

Kamesh Munagala has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "CCF:AF:EAGER Algorithmic Paradigms for Big Data Computation." Total funding will be $100,000 over 12 months.

C-SURF Fellows Named for 2014

Benson Joins Faculty

CS welcomes Theo Benson as an assistant professor. Benson comes to us from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, where he worked on understanding and mitigating the implications of management complexity on enterprise networks and data centers. more

Englehardt Joins Faculty

We welcome Barbara Engelhardt, Assistant Professor of Biostatistics & Bioinformatics and Computer Science. Engelhardt came to Duke last year from the University of Chicago, where she was a postdoc with professor Matthew Stephens. Prior to that she received her PhD from the University of California, Berkeley's EECS department, where she was advised by professor Michael Jordan. more»

Grace Hopper 2013

Ugrads Participate in BoA Campus Challenge

DUInnovate, a Duke University team comprised of nine students from CS, BME, ECE, Psychology, Econ, and Biology, took third place in the Bank of America Campus Challenge 2013. The CS students were Howard Chung (U), David Spruill (U), and Richard Cao (U). Teams were required to present solutions to real-world technology and business challenges associated with the financial services industry.

Alum Update: Trushkowsky

Hauser Joins Faculty

CS welcomes Kris Hauser, Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, as secondary faculty. He focuses on the planning and control of autonomous robots and is part of a a steadily expanding robotics group on campus. More

Introducing the New CS Robot

Meet the newest member of the department, George Konidaris's robot. It will be his primary research platform, to be used in three broad areas: 1) research into automatically learning motor control skills, like opening doors or playing table tennis, 2) learning abstract representations of the world that can be used to reason and plan at a high level, and 3) learning how to manipulate every-day objects - figuring out what they do and how they work; for example, discovering how to operate a microwave, what each button does, etc.

Code is Powerful Blueprint for Ugrad Programmers

Grant Awarded

Mauro Maggioni has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "Structured Dictionary Models and Learning for High Resolution Images." Total funding will be $240,001 over 36 months.

Grant Awarded

Owen Astrachan has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "Collaborative Research: Broadening Participation in Computer Science: AP Computer Science Principles Phase II." Total funding will be $136,717 over 48 months.

Grant Awarded

Pankaj Agarwal has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "AF:Large:Collaborative Research: Compact Representations and Efficient Algorithms for Distributed Geometric Data." Total funding will be $15,840 over 3 months.

Grant Awarded

Katherine Heller has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "Bayesian Models of Social Behavior Using Online Resources." Total funding will be $78,500 over 12 months.

Yang Promoted

Grant Awarded

Jeffrey Chase of Computer Science has received an award from the University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill for a project entitled "Deploying a Vertically Integrated GENI "Island": a Prototype GENI Control Plane (ORCA) for a Metro-Scale Optical Testbed." Total funding will be $20,000 over 4 months.

Grant Awarded

Shivnath Babu has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "Simplifying Database Management with Automated Experimentation." Total funding will be $14,400 over 14 months.

Alum Update: Perriman

Virtual Embodiment

The room is unexceptional but for a mirror on the wall that grabs your attention. You look in the mirror. Is it really you? Your skin color is different! You wave and the image waves back, tracking and mirroring your movements seamlessly. More

Alum Update: Xia

Lirong Xia (G '11) is a 2015 recipient of an NSF CAREER Award. This grant will support work on his project, "A New Theory of Social Choice for More than Two Alternatives: Combining Economics, Statistics, and Computation." Xia is an assistant professor in the Computer Science Department at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Duke Econ article | NSF award abstract

ACM Programming Contest

In November Duke CS hosted the annual ACM Regional Programming Contest for the 18th consecutive year, with Susan Rodger serving as site director and Owen Astrachan as head coach. Duke's top ranked team included Brian Bullins (U), Jim Posen (U), and Rex Ying. They were coached by Siyang Chen and Kevin Kauffman.

OSPREY Software Predicts Superbugs' Countermoves to New Drugs

Department Overhauls Introductory Course

Since 2010, computer science professors have been revamping course COMPSCI 101 to place more emphasis on real-world applications and solving problems in small groups with peer tutors. Many lectures include discussions about Duke alumni who took the course, or professionals doing creative work in the field. More

Graduate Admissions Visit 2015

Thirty-one top applicants attended this year's visit for prospective grad students, which was held February 19-21. The event included talks by faculty and students, one-on-one meetings with faculty, a poster session, and a campus tour. Mayuresh Kunji (G) is shown discussing his poster.

Hartemink Receives NHGRI Grant

Alex Hartemink is part of a diverse Duke team to receive $5.9 million from the National Human Genome Research Institute to characterize how human lung epithelial cells respond to anti-inflammatory drugs called glucocorticoids. The team includes Medical School faculty members Tim Reddy and Greg Crawford, and the Pratt School's Charles Gersbach.

Yahoo! Donates Equipment

Yahoo! has donated 300 servers and four switches to Duke CS. The equipment will enable Shivnath Babu and Theo Benson to study the problems that big-data frameworks (e.g. Hadoop) and cluster management paradigms (e.g. Software Defined Networking and OpenStack) encounter, and search for ways to make them perform better and more reliably.

TechConnect 2013

inDuke TechConnect 2013, an event hosted by the Duke University Department of Computer Science, Pratt School of Engineering, and Career Center to bring students and employers together for networking and education was held in September. Web site

Gordan Named Sloan Fellow

Tomasi Receives Helmholtz Prize

Carlo Tomasi was awarded the Helmholtz Prize at the International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) for two papers from over ten years ago which have had significant impact on computer vision research. More

Alum Update: Stajich

Graduate Admissions Visit 2014

Twenty-two top applicants attended this year's visit for prospective grad students, which was held February 20-22. The event included talks by faculty and students, one-on-one meetings with faculty, a poster session, and a campus tour led by Alex Hartemink.

Grant Awarded: Reif

John Reif has received an award from the Army Research Office for a project entitled "Support of Eleventh Conference on the Foundations of Nanoscience (FNANO 2014)." Total funding will be $15,000 over 12 months.

Konidaris Joins Faculty

Farsiu Joins Faculty

CS welcomes Sina Farsiu, Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology, Biomedical Engineering, Electrical & Computer Engineering, and Computer Science. Farsiu took up his primary appointment in the Duke Medicine Department of Opthalmology in 2007, arriving from the University of California in Santa Cruz, where he received his PhD degree in electrical engineering, with a concentration in statistical image and signal processing. more»

Ugrads named KPCB Engineering Fellows

Jesse Hu (U), Avinash Moondra (U), Alan Ni (U), Ben Schwab (U), and Jay Wang (U), and have been named KPCB (Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers) Engineering Fellows for 2014. The fellowship program offers top U.S. college and graduate students a chance to work inside innovative Silicon Valley startups. The three-month summer program is focused on engineering and design.

Azhar Joins Faculty

Graduate Admissions Visit 2013

This year's graduate admissions visit for prospective students was a whirlwind of activities over three days, but much work went on before and after the recruiting event - one of the Department of Computer Science's most important activities. more

Summer Undergraduate Enrichment Experiences 2013

Calderbank to Lead Interdisciplinary Program

Robert Calderbank has been appointed director of an interdisciplinary program designed to increase "big data" computational research. The new program is called the Information Initiative at Duke (iiD). more»

Calderbank Awarded IEEE Medal

Donald Develops Carbon Nanotube Spear to Study Brain Cell Signals

The new brain cell spear developed by Bruce Donald and colleagues is a millimeter long, only a few nanometers wide and harnesses the superior electromechanical properties of carbon nanotubes to capture electrical signals from individual neurons. More

Astrachan Leads AP Principles Course and Exam Team

The NSF is providing a $5.2M grant to implement a new advanced placement computer science principles course and exam developed by Owen Astrachan and team. Brook Osborne played an important role on the project. more»

Cox Develops ScreenPass App

Alice Symposium and Workshops 2013

Teachers taking a follow-up programming workshop this summer scored a bonus with a chance to participate in the third Alice Symposium, co-run on the Duke campus by Professors Susan Rodger of Duke University, Steve Cooper of Stanford University, and Wanda Dann of Carnegie Mellon University. More

Donald and Hallen Work to Outsmart HIV

Bruce Donald, Mark Hallen (G), and colleagues have published a 3-D close-up of a designer protein that, if injected into patients, could help the immune system make better antibodies against the HIV virus. More

Alice Workshop 2015 Led by Rodger

A two-week Adventures in Alice Programming workshop to teach K-12 teachers how to program and to integrate programming into their disciplines was led Susan Rodger and Chari Distler, and three Duke undergraduates: David Yan (U), Erin Taylor (U), and Alex Boldt (U). These workshops have been held at Duke every summer since 2008. More

Summer Undergraduate Enrichment Experiences 2015

The Computer Science Department provided rising sophomores, juniors and seniors with summer research experiences from May to August 2015. In addition to the individual research projects, students also participated in a weekly seminar of faculty and graduate student speakers to learn about other research ongoing in the department.

Undergraduate Awards Presented 2013

Conitzer Receives Social Choice and Welfare Prize

Vincent Conitzer and Stanford's Tim Roughgarden have been awarded the Social Choice and Welfare Prize for their outstanding accomplishments in the area of social choice theory and welfare economics. More

Grant Awarded: Agarwal

Pankaj Agarwal has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "BSF: 201229: Efficient Algorithms for Geometric Optimization." Total funding will be $32,843 over 48 months.

Grant Awarded: Maggioni

Mauro Maggioni has received an award from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research for a project entitled "Geometric Approximation and Estimation of Probability Measures in High Dimensions." Total funding will be $561,362 over 36 months.

Alice Workshop 2014 Led by Rodger

A two-week Adventures in Alice Programming workshop to teach K-12 teachers how to program and to integrate programming into their disciplines was led by Susan Rodger, assisted by Samantha Huerta (U), Yossra Hamid (U) and Ellen Yuan (U). More

Dwyer Selected for NSSEFF Program

Chris Dwyer has been selected as a National Security Science and Engineering Faculty Fellow. He is one of just ten faculty chosen in this highly competitive national program that provides substantial funding for basic research. More

Parr Appointed Chair

Effective July 1, Ronald Parr will succeed Carlo Tomasi as department chair. Parr's research area is artificial intelligence. He joined the department as an assistant professor in 2000 and was promoted to full professor in 2013. More

Calderbank Receives Shannon Award

Robert Calderbank, director of the Information Initiative at Duke (iiD) and the Charles S. Sydnor Professor of Computer Science, has been named the 2015 recipient of the Claude E. Shannon Award by the IEEE Information Theory Society. More

Panigrahi Receives Yahoo FREP Award

Debmalya Panigrahi has been named a recipient of the 2015 Yahoo Faculty Research and Engagement Program (FREP) award. Over the course of the next year and beyond, FREP award recipients and Yahoo Labs scientists will work closely to further research in their mutual areas of interest. More

Machanavajjhala to Participate in Surveillance Society Forum

Ashwin Machanavajjhala will be a panelist in "The Surveillance Society," a Duke forum exploring the dangers and benefits of living in a society where government and corporations track the daily activities of citizens. More

Ge Joins Faculty

CS welcomes Rong Ge as an assistant professor. Ge comes to us from Microsoft Research. He is interested in theoretical computer science and machine learning and will be part of the algorithms group. More

Roy Joins Faculty

The Department welcomes Sudeepa Roy as an assistant professor. Roy is interested in data and information management with a focus on foundational aspects of big data analysis. She will be part of the systems group. More

Fulton Joins Staff

Conitzer Named Jenkins Chair

Vincent Conitzer has been named the Kimberly J. Jenkins University Professor of New Technologies effective September 1, 2015. The Jenkins Chair is designated for the appointment of a scholar who has achieved national or international distinction and whose work is concerned with the social and cultural impact of information technologies, including the Internet.

TIME Reports on Gainza's Research

Grant Awarded

Alvin Lebeck has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "Harnessing Highly Threaded Hardware for Server Workloads." Total funding will be $349,999 over 48 months.

Rodger Named ACM Outstanding Educator

The ACM has named Susan Rodger a recipient of the 2013 Karl V. Karlstrom Outstanding Educator Award for her contributions to the teaching of computer science theory in higher education, and the development of computer science education in primary and secondary schools. More

Spencer is Blue Devil of the Week

TechConnect 2014

The Fall 2014 TechConnect was another success with 65 companies and the largest student attendance to date with well over 500 students. Panelists for the evening represented GSK, Fluor, GE, Plexus and Venture for America.

Grant Awarded to Machanavajjhala

Ashwin Machanavajjhala and other Duke researchers have received a $1.5 million NSF grant for their research project, An Integrated System for Public/Private Access to Large-scale, Confidential Social Science Data. More

CS-Econ Retreat

Duke's CS-Econ group held a retreat on November 14. Faculty from Computer Science, Economics, ECE, and Fuqua presented their research to a broad interdisciplinary audience, and the group discussed the future of the field at Duke.

Alum Update: Cullen

Kevin Cullen (U '07) is Duke's Basketball Director of Information Technology. He is responsible for overseeing all aspects of the team's film and video needs and handling software that applies advanced metrics to basketball. More

Grant Awarded

Pankaj Agarwal has received an award from the US-Israel Binational Science Foundation for a project entitled "Efficient Algorithms for Geometric Optimization." Total funding will be $16,213 over 48 months.

Grant Awarded

Jun Yang has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "III: Small: Cumulon: Easy and Efficient Statistical Big-Data Analysis in the Cloud." Total funding will be $499,992 over 36 months.

Donald Focuses HIV Vaccine Development Efforts

Combining expertise in biochemistry, immunology and advanced computation, Bruce Donald and colleagues at Duke have determined the structure of a key part of the HIV envelope protein, the gp41 membrane proximal external region (MPER), which previously eluded detailed structural description. More

Ferrari Studies Brain's Adaptability

Grant Awarded

Xiaobai Sun has received an award from the Army Research Office for a project entitled "A Shift in Computing Platform for Advancing Research and Education." Total funding will be $52,627 over 12 months.

Conitzer Named Program Chair

Benson Receives Yahoo FREP Award

Theo Benson has been named a recipient of the 2015 Yahoo Faculty Research and Engagement Program (FREP) award. The FREP awards unrestricted gifts to support new, exciting Internet research studies and experiments between academics across the globe and their Yahoo Research Scientist counterparts. More

Honorable Mention Paper: Pazis

Machanavajjhala Leads CHARM Project

Ashwin Machanavajjhala led an interdisciplinary project on Community Health and Resource Mapping (CHARM), for which he received a Research Incubator Award from the Information Initiative at Duke. The project involves researchers from Global Health and the School of Medicine.

Undergrad Tells of Yahoo! Internship

Ugrads Compete in HackDuke Contest

CS majors Zachary Bears (U), Sai Cheemalapati (U), and Michael Deng (U) were members of the first place team in the HackDuke computer programming contest. In less than 24 hours, they developed a prototype device that uses a glove, sensors and a computer to translate the motions of sign language into speech. Video | Duke Today

New Grad Students 2013

Grant Awarded: Sun

Xiaobai Sun has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "Collaborative Research: Integral Equation-Based Fast Algorithms and Graph-Theoretic Methods for Large-Scale Simulations." Total funding will be $6,286 over 12 months.

Susan Rodger Named SIGCSE Chair

Rodger Reappointed

Susan Rodger has been reappointed as Professor of the Practice (PoP) of Computer Science. Rodger has been with the department since 1994. She has played a key role in shaping the CS undergraduate experience through her teaching, advising, and mentoring. Recipient of the ACM Karl V. Karlstrom Outstanding Educator award, she is a nationally recognized figure in computer science education. Rodger has also been a tireless champion of diversity in our field.

Konidaris Receives DARPA Young Faculty Award

George Konidaris is the winner of a Young Faculty Award (YFA) from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). The YFA aims to provide high-impact fundung to exceptional junior faculty in the first few years of their appointment. Konidaris plans to use the award to fund his research on learning high-level task descriptions that robotics can use to rapidly find solutions to new tasks.

Shamblin receives Staff Award

Joe Shamblin (S) was presented the 2014-5 Outstanding Departmental Service Award for his outstanding flexibility and support of the department both on a daily basis and through several special circumstances

Bryant Joins Faculty

We welcome Robert L. Bryant, Professor of Math and Computer Science, as a secondary professor. Bryant's research focuses on differential geometry, particularly situations in geometry in which the objects being studied are characterized by special properties that make application of standard techniques problematic. More

TechConnect 2015

inDuke TechConnect 2015, an event hosted by the Duke University Department of Computer Science, Pratt School of Engineering, and Career Center to bring students and employers together for networking and education was held in September. Web Site

Donald Named AAAS Fellow

Bruce Donald has been elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) for contributions in computational molecular biology. The award is bestowed on AAAS members by their peers for meritorious efforts to advance science or its applications in society. More

Trey Bagley Recreates Weasleys' Clock

TechConnect 2016 Spring

Over 300 Pratt Engineering and CS students connected with 37 companies at the 7th spring TechConnect networking fair. The evening started with a panel of industry representatives. The reps, some who are alum, shared information, advice, insights and stories about their organizations, the job market and what they wish they had known when they were students. Web site | Photos

Fan, Zahedi, and Lee Receive Best Paper Award

Randles Joins Faculty

We welcome Amanda Randles, Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Mechanical Engineering, as secondary faculty. Randles is a CS alumna (BA,'05). Her research in biomedical simulation and high performance computing focuses on the development of new computational tools that she uses to provide insight into the localization and development of human diseases ranging from atherosclerosis to cancer. More

New Book by Conitzer

The rapidly growing field of computational social choice, at the intersection of computer science and economics, deals with the computational aspects of collective decision making. This handbook, written by thirty-six prominent members of the computational social choice community and co-edited by Vincent Conitzer, covers the field comprehensively. Amazon

Steorts Joins Faculty

The Department welcomes Assistant Professor of Statistical Science Rebecca Steorts as secondary faculty. Her research interests are in computationally scalable approaches to social science applications, where she focuses on recovering high-dimensional objects from degraded data and determining how to recover the underlying structure. More

Tomasi Awarded Named Professorship

Carlo Tomasi has been named the Iris Einheuser Professor of Computer Science in recognition of his seminal contributions to computer vision, effective July 1, 2016. A distinguished professorship such as this is the highest honor Duke can award its faculty members. More

Undergraduate Awards Presented 2016

Cox, Machanavajjhala, Srivastava Develop Video Privacy Tool

Landon Cox, Ashwin Machanavajjhala, Animesh Srivastava (G), and other Duke computer scientists have developed software that helps prevent inadvertent disclosure of trade secrets and other restricted information within a camera's field of view by letting users specify what others can see. More

Conitzer Weighs in on New Rules for AI

Team Led by Konidaris and Sorin Develops Motion Planning Processor

George Konidaris, Dan Sorin, and CS students Will Floyd-Jones (U) and Ying Qi (U) have introduced a specially-designed computer processor for motion planning that can plan up to 10,000 times faster than existing approaches. More

Alice Workshop 2016 Led by Rodger

A two-week Adventures in Alice Programming workshop to teach K-12 teachers how to program and to integrate programming into their disciplines was held. It was led by Prof. Susan Rodger, teacher Chari Distler, and Duke undergraduates Carolyn Sun, Ademola Olayinka (U) and Anh Trinh (U). In addition to programming 3D virtual worlds, the teachers got a chance to step into a real virtual world, the Duke Immersive Virtual Environment. Photos

CRA Features CS Alum: Mason, Ricco, Chen

The Computing Research Association (CRA) published a set of short videos to explain the benefits of pursuing a PhD in Computer Science. Mac Mason (G '14), Susanna Ricco (G '14), and Tiffany Chen (U '06) were featured. On YouTube: Mason and Ricco talk about their work in robotics and vision at Google | Chen talks about her work in bioinformatics at Cytobank

Roy Receives NSF CAREER Award

Sudeepa Roy has received a CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "CAREER: FIREFLY - Rich Explanations for Database Queries." Total funding will be $550,000 over 5 years. This award will support Roy's research into providing automatic explanations to help a range of people harness Big Data more efficiently. This is NSF's most prestigious award in support of junior faculty who exemplify the role of teacher-scholars. More

Grad Student Awards 2015-16

Tomasi Named ACM Fellow

Carlo Tomasi, Iris Einheuser Professor of Computer Science, has been named an ACM Fellow for his contributions to computer vision.
As a fellow, Tomasi joins a select group of the top 1% of ACM professional members. ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery, is the world's largest educational and scientific computing society.

Lebeck Elevated to IEEE Fellow

Alvin Lebeck has been elevated to IEEE Fellow in recognition of his contributions to memory hierarchies and energy-efficient and parallel computing. Less than 0.1% of voting IEEE members are selected annually for elevation to fellow status. This is IEEE's highest honor.

Freeman Selected for Facebook Fellowship

Duke Partners with Google to Address the Capacity Crunch

Duke's involvement in Google's Capacity program, designed to address dramatic increases in undergraduate Computer Science enrollments, has resulted in new approaches to the engagement of women and underrepresented students and increased access to peer mentoring. More

Cynthia Rudin, a rising star in the field of machine learning, focuses on writing algorithms that are easily interpretable by human experts for practical tasks like predicting energy grid reliability or diagnosing sleep apnea. She holds a dual appointment in Computer Science and the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. More

Hriciga Joins Staff

Conitzer Wins Weekly New Yorker Caption Contest

With the quip "The doctor said it might help me quit," Vincent Conitzer won the New Yorker's weekly contest in which readers send in suggested captions. Conitzer felt drawn to this cartoon because his three-year-old son is going through a shark phase. More

Machanavajjhala receives Influential Paper Award

CS Alumni Reception 2017

Department Chair Ron Parr and CS faculty hosted a reception for CS alumni during Duke's 2017 Alumni Reunion. The reception featured remarks by Owen Astrachan and Landon Cox on their latest efforts to incorporate mobile technologies into our undergraduate curriculum, and a discussion of the new DTech Scholars Program by Monica Jenkins. Photos

Mozingo-Ware Joins Staff

Astrachan Named ACM Outstanding Educator

ACM has named Owen Astrachan recipient of the 2016 Karl V. Karlstrom Outstanding Educator Award for three decades of innovative computer science pedagogy and inspirational community leadership in broadening the appeal of high school and college introductory computer science courses. More

Undergrad Awards Presented 2017

Lebeck Edits New ACM SIGARCH Blog

Alvin Lebeck is the inaugural editor of Computer Architecture Today, the recently-launched ACM SIGARCH blog whose mission is to inform the broad computing community about current activities, advances and future directions in computer architecture. More

Ge Awarded NSF Grant

Rong Ge has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "AF: Large: Collaborative Research: Nonconvex Methods and Models for Learning: Towards Algorithms with Provable and Interpretable Guarantees." Total funding will be $499,998, for 5 years starting June 1. Abstract

Duke Technology Scholars Program Helps Women Thrive in Tech

Duke students are participating in DTech, a partnership between the Departments of Computer Science and Electrical & Computer Engineering designed to attract and retain women in computing studies and create a pipeline of women into industry. More

Alice Workshop 2017 Led by Rodger

A two-week Adventures in Alice Programming workshop to teach middle school and high school teachers how to program and to integrate programming into their disciplines was led by Susan Rodger and five undergraduates: Natalie Huffman (Duke), Jonathan Kuo (Duke), Erich Narten (UNC Charlotte), Jack Wrigley (Amherst College), and Vicki Zhang (Duke). More

Rudin Trains Computers to Predict Recidivism

Cynthia Rudin and colleagues are training computers to build statistical models to predict future criminal behavior, called recidivism, that are just as accurate as black-box models, but more transparent and easier to interpret. More

Agarwal Named Department Chair

The department is pleased to announce the appointment of Pankaj K. Agarwal as department chair effective August 15. Agarwal is the RJR Nabisco Professor of Computer Science and Mathematics. He joined Duke as an assistant professor in computer science in 1989. He served as department chair 2004-2010. More

Agarwal Seeks Solution for Small Faculty Size

In response to the strain that increased demand for computer science classes has imposed on a small faculty, CS Chair Pankaj Agarwal plans to enhance the department through collaborations with other departments, as well as pursuing initiatives for enhancing minorities' involvement in computer science. More

Apple's Cue to Speak at Duke

Eddy Cue (AB '86), Apple’s Senior Vice President of Internet Software and Services, will give a special talk at Duke on September 29. Eddy earned a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science and Economics from Duke in 1986. He joined Apple in 1989. CS is co-hosting the talk with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and DTech. More